Tuesday, 10 August 2021

the lightening conductor

 the lightening conductor


the lightening conductor

wide and green and long

stiff-necked up the spire

wire

does god dive bomb his church   and

why did he make minds that could fashion a lightening conductor 

for the stone that appeared so solid in its protection   and yet

worried about the devastation that a lightening bolt would inflict on the pews

on the prayer cushions’ red dented knees

wire

into the earth does it conduct to the underworld a flash of the over world

and never the resurrection of the reverse polarity the reverse magnetic fields

the belief in the molten dynamo at the core of a doctrine upon which the mantle sits

with its golden garb  its crossed surpluses  its laying of hands

but never once   you notice

on the lightening conductor 

but upon the bowed heads of a resistance to dogma that a true control rod would

apply to the critical facts that a lightening conductor defies interrogation 

in the way the doors close on a congregation gone home with

the moon gone down amongst the black clouds of a gathering storm

prepare   the baton has tapped the lectern   the show begins 




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